Regency romance loves an arrival.
A carriage at the door.
A lady descending a grand staircase.
A gentleman returning from war.
A widow stepping back into society.
A mysterious stranger taking a seat at the gaming table.
But in The Lyon’s Sweet Temptation, the two arrivals that mattered most to me were quieter.
Rosine Cassis comes to the Lyon’s Den (a famous gambling den in Dragonblade’s well-known series, i.e., a casino for the elite with a matchmaker patroness called Mrs. Dove-Lyon) from Strasbourg, with Alsace in her accent and survival in her hands.
Sander comes from much farther east, from the Pale of Settlement, carrying a chessboard, grief, discipline, and the habit of watching a room before trusting it.
Both of them are immigrants in London.
That is rare in Regency romance, and it immediately changed the emotional center of the book.
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